Configure the dialect for translations that pivot

If you create content in a language other than English, you can configure Inspire to translate your content to English first. Then Inspire automatically creates a job to translate the English source to the target language. By default, this feature isn't active but as an administrator you can enable it.

By default, this feature is not enabled.
When a user sends a component to translation, if the source file isn't in English and needs to be:
  • The translation coordinator must first send the source files to be translated into English.
  • When that job has a State of Completed, the translation coordinator must manually create another job to send the English source files to be translated into the target language.

When sending files to translation, the user won't see a Pivot to English option:

Enabling this feature.
When a user sends a component to translation, there can be an option to Pivot to English.

After you enable the PivotToEnglish feature:

  • The Pivot to English checkbox always appears when you create a translation from Translation Management.
    • By default, this option is checked when you translate a non-English component.
    • If the component you are sending to translation is in English, the Pivot to English checkbox is not selected by default.
  • If you create a translation job in another place, such as in the Components browser:
    • The Pivot to English checkbox only appears when you translate a non-English component.
    • The Pivot to English checkbox is hidden when you translate an English component.

When sending files to translation:

  • The translation coordinator only has to select the final Translation Target.
  • Translation starts with the non English components.

  • The second job for a translation pivot contains the same number of files as the first.

  • If an English component is locked, the entire job fails.

  • Images remain linked to the original language. For example, if the source is in German, images remain linked to the German source components.

  • When that job has a State of Completed, Inspire automatically creates another job to send the English source files to be translated into the Translation Target language.

Requirements:

  • An administrator must enable the TranslationLockSourceDisabled optional feature. Follow the steps in: Allow files to remain unlocked during translation.

  • An administrator must turn on one of the following, but not both:

  • An administrator must configure the translation export configuration to include all referenced content. Follow the steps in: Create an export configuration, and:
    • In step 4b, select Translation.
    • In step 5, on the Create Export Configuration screen, select the Relations tab. By default, the element name list is empty and all relations apply to all element types defined within the relation. Make sure the element name list is empty so that the translation export configuration includes all referenced content.
  • The user creating the translation job must select the Pivot to English option. Follow the steps in: Translate to English first.

Inspire uses a region designator which is a code that represents a country (ISO 3166-1 standard, two-letter, capitalized code). To specify a dialect, Inspire uses a hyphen to combine a language designator with a region designator.

When using the feature, an administrator can now select one of the following dialects for English:
  • en-US (the English language as it is used in the United States of America)
  • en-GB (the English language as it is used in the United Kingdom)

  • The Pivot To English (US) feature only works if both of the following conditions are true:

    • An Administrator enables the PivotToEnglish feature
    • The language in the source component is NOT English

  • The Pivot To English (GB) feature only works if both of the following conditions are true:

    • An Administrator enables the PivotToEnglishGB feature
    • An Administrator disables the PivotToEnglish feature
    • The language in the source component is NOT English

If both are enabled, Inspire always uses the PivotToEnglish (en-US) option.